Everything needed to research and organize your own solo travel plan, either by joining single-friendly group vacations or by going solo, independently and adventurously.
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| Residents of Canada (payable in C$$ including GST): | ||
| LIFE – C$50 (incl. GST) | ||
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Solo Travel News has been published every other month since 1990 and is well known
to travel writers and editors as the best planning resource for single
and solo travelers. The 20-page, electronic newsletter includes destination reports,
reader recommendations, listings of singles tours, singles cruises, and newsy items
about other single-friendly holiday ideas not widely marketed in travel agencies, such as
volunteer vacations, workshop holidays, hospitality organizations, anything at all that might be helpful in planning a go-alone vacation. Solo Travel News also provides a free forum for exchanging tips and tales and promoting friendship among solo travelers. Included with registration fee.
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What they say about Solo Travel News.
The Single-Friendly Travel Directory is a regularly updated travel planning resource that lists over 250 travel suppliers, including tour companies, cruise lines, resorts, spas, clubs, societies, and organizations that offer vacation opportunities of interest to people who travel alone. Whether the traveler wants high
adventure or simple sightseeing, beach resort or health spa, art study
program or volunteer project, trips designed for a particular age group,
or trips just for singles, contacts may quickly be selected from the master
list with the help of fifteen different cross-reference indexes that point
to companies according to travel interest. Included with registration fee.
"If I can travel the globe solo for a
year, anyone can," says veteran traveler Diane Redfern who started Connecting:
Solo Travel Network (CSTN) in 1990. These 15 illustrated essays follow a not-so-adventurous
traveler's personal rite-of-passage from timid to intrepid. On the road
with a "year's gear" stashed in one carry-on bag nicknamed "Pooch," a wide-eyed
Redfern puts on rose-colored glasses and lets serendipity take the lead
in a journey that gives her ample opportunity to face her middle-class,
middle-age fears and foibles. She gets lost and found, worn and weary,
down and out, almost loses her head and her heart more than once and, all
in all, returns home renewed, invigorated, and convinced that the world
is a magical place and that she has had the most marvelous time of her
life. Included with registration fee.
All of the tips we've collected over the years. Written from the solo traveler's perspective, topics cover basic
planning and researching, budgeting and finding travel deals, packing tips,
money matters, as well as issues concerning loneliness, health and safety. Included with registration fee.
Connecting: Solo Travel Network (CSTN) will not share (or sell) any personal information with any other organization or commercial enterprise. Individuals may, at their discretion, elect to have designated contact information passed on to other members via our private discussion board located at our sister website, CSTN Friends in Travel.
By Telephone for questions or payments with MC, VISA, American Express:
1-800-557-1757, 1-604-886-9099.
Office hours: 9am to 5pm, Monday through Friday, PACIFIC TIME.
By Mail: MC, VISA, American Express, cheque, money order payable to:
Connecting: Solo Travel Network
Address:
CSTN, c/o Diane Redfern
689 Park Road, Unit 6,
Gibsons, BC V0N 1V7 Canada